Archive Management System project update: April-May 2021
This is the final regular update about the Archive Management System project. The AMS project team benefited hugely by drawing on the expertise of many […]
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Grounds for enthusiasm: the University Library outside
The appearance mid-April of foodPark. in front of the UL is only the most recent innovative use of the grounds in a crisis. During World War II, the need to keep people fed and the […]
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Archive Management System: project update April 2021
This is a regular report on the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. The project ends at the end of April and the […]
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Early modern mathematics: digitising the Macclesfield Collection
Over the last 15 months staff from Archives & Modern Manuscripts, Conservation & Collection Care, Digital Content & Library and Development & Friends of the […]
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A delight in Turkish: E. J. W. Gibb and his library
Elias Gibb was a rather private and reclusive man of scholarship, but his contribution to Turkish studies in the form of translations and discussions of […]
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Archive Management System: project update, December 2020-January 2021
This is a regular report on the progress of the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. The project will end at the end of April 2021 […]
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The man who knew everything! The letters of John Stevens Henslow (1796-1861)
175 years ago John Stevens Henslow started lobbying for a Botanic Garden in Cambridge. After twenty years of effort, his work bore fruit and led […]
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From Spare Room to Reading Room: the journey of an archive collection
As the first section of the Spitting Image collection is about to be added to our new on-line catalogue, I thought it might be of […]
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Archive Management System project update: October-November 2020
This is a regular update on the Archive Management System (AMS) Project. It has been a busy couple of months for the AMS project and […]
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Introduction to the Ely assize files
A new tranche of assize court records has recently been added to the online catalogue, ArchiveSearch, the new Cambridge-wide archive management system. Following the completion of cataloguing of the series […]
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